JS module imports not captured

[FreeMasen]

The following JS will fail when saved for additional network access attempts

import * from "./module.js"

with the following error when loaded

Cross-Origin Request Blocked: The Same Origin Policy disallows reading the remote resource at file:///Users/rfm/module.js. (Reason: CORS request not http).

[snshn]

Yeah, that's the problem with lazy-loaded files. You could try using Chrome for these types of sites, as described in one of the sections of README. Processing JS and resolving dynamically loaded files is something that happens when the browser opens the page, that's the main cause of this problem. You could try using the -b option to point the browser at the location of module.js... that could work.

[FreeMasen]

Would you be willing to add some level of JS parsing to this project? I actually maintain a JS parser that could be used here, I would be interested in integrating it if you would be willing to accept a PR like that?

[snshn]

It's so hard to tell right now... I need to finish some urgent things first (like MHTML support, crawling/recursion, async asset retrieval mechanism for speed, CORS...). Browsers already have JS engines in them, and I hoped they'd be more interested in implementing what Monolith does, rendering it obsolete, but it's been like 5 years, and here we are, still not being able to easily save page as one file using just the browser.
After the JS is in, I'll end up having to add WebASM, and then something else, and something else, and essentially reinventing the wheel just because browsers don't do the thing they should be able to. I want Monolith to do awesome things, and as much as I hate the fact that JS on 99% of sites today is non-unobtrusive, the reality is usually not the way we want it to be, so to have a tool that just saves pages as one file, some kind of JS support is pretty much a must-have. I'd say it should be on the road map, perhaps as an optional switch (possibly even leveraging locally-installed browsers to do that), but I can't promise anything short-term.

[snshn]

Here to give a quick update. I'm working on parsing and embedding those modules as data URLs, currently trying to go with boa_parser.